About the Book: Religion in Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh
Parvéz Dewân can send you to sleep about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. If anyone
has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about
Indias northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its
valleys, peaks and rivers. He once decided to climb up a steep, almost sheer,
mountain, and trek through forests of the nearly extinct burza/bhoj patr, to
check tribal chief Haji Muhammad Rafique Bockens report that his son-in- law,
Ghulam Quadir, had seen a cave temple dedicated to Lord Shiv... Some Shiite
Muslims in Trespon told him that, unknown to the